Within the last year and a half we have house-sat for hens, llamas, sheep, ducks, geese. Long ago, I helped care for goats. We have both helped care for horses, and our family owned a pony for 2 years.
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We have been house-sitting almost continuously since November 2022. We work full-time from anywhere on our laptops. In Edinburgh school holidays, our adult daughter, a violin teacher and traditional musician, sometimes likes to join us on a house-sit.
From 2008 to 2021, we had a lovely Scottish Border Collie, who did 155 Munros with us, dying of cancer not long before we completed our Munros. In March 2021 we moved to near Spean Bridge. When we're at home, we stay in our cabin in the woods, but most of the time we're house-sitting, while we investigate building a house (waiting for a water servitude). We love animals (we are vegan), and are happy to look after animals that are new to us. We've looked after dogs, hens, llamas, sheep, ducks, geese, parakeets and feral and domestic cats. We like to go up Corbetts one day at weekends. so our ideal house-sit is near hills with either a fit dog or pets that we can leave for some hours.
Our hobbies are hillwalking and long walks, occasionally cycling and ski-touring, and reading. We prefer good wifi and/or reliable 4G, but if need be, a visit to a nearby cafe with wifi can tide us over. Sometimes one of us goes away for an in-person meeting (usually in Edinburgh), and the other one stays at the house-sit, but usually we're both at the house-sit.
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